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indices reports byte offsets instead of character offsets #3064

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01mf02 opened this issue Mar 12, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #3065
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indices reports byte offsets instead of character offsets #3064

01mf02 opened this issue Mar 12, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #3065
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@01mf02
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01mf02 commented Mar 12, 2024

Describe the bug
jq uses characters to index strings.
To see that, we can run "🇬🇧oo" | .[0 : 1,2,3,4], which yields "🇬" "🇬🇧" "🇬🇧o" "🇬🇧oo".
Note that 🇬🇧 is actually two characters and 8 bytes, as we can see from "🇬🇧" | length, utf8bytelength.
However, the indices filter returns byte offsets to the pattern in the string.
The documentation does not specify the behaviour of indices for UTF-8 strings, but given that length and .[x:y] use character counts to index strings, it is likely that this is a bug and not just undocumented behaviour.

To Reproduce
$ ./jq-linux-amd64-1.7.1 -nc '"🇬🇧oo" | indices("o")'
[8,9]
$ ./jq-linux-amd64-1.7.1 -nc '"ƒoo" | indices("o")'
[2,3]

Expected behavior
$ ./jq-linux-amd64-1.7.1-fixed -nc '"🇬🇧oo" | indices("o")'
[2,3]
$ ./jq-linux-amd64-1.7.1-fixed -nc '"ƒoo" | indices("o")'
[1,2]

The problem is probably caused in jv_string_indexes.

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itchyny commented Mar 12, 2024

This is a dup of #1430, #1624.

wader added a commit to wader/jq that referenced this issue Mar 12, 2024
@emanuele6 emanuele6 added the dup label Mar 15, 2024
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